New Years Gaming Resolutions 2014

Aarontu wrote: In 2014, I want to play my new, unplayed games:

SPELLFIRE

MUNCHKIN ZOMBIES!

(from Secret Satan)

Munchkin Zombies is fun. My son loves it. Instead of monsters, you're breaking into houses to get to humans, and sometimes enemy zombies.

I've already got my ass handed to him playing Munchkin Legends.

ThirstyMan wrote: Agreed. OCS is the bomb.

Never played a wargame even close to the extent of planning needed in OCS.

I'll have to check out OCS. I have Bloody 110th from The Gamers, which I think is part of their TCS series. And that had you actually plotting things out with a grease pencil (showing my age) to plan attacks. I should go back and break that out again.

So much to do, so little time. Which means making choices and focus! Which results in the following resolutions:

1. I’m going to write the book.

2. I won’t buy any new games, but play what I’ve got. I’ve registered all my games on boardgamegeek today and found that I have about 240, of which I have played only 120 at least once. I will raise that percentage by playing at least 12 of those this year (one each month seems doable) and shedding 24. Not buying new games will be tough, though.

3. I won’t buy new figures. I might buy some more vehicles for Chain of Command. And maybe some buildings. I will shed some 5% of my lead pile.

4. I won’t buy new books except about Napoleonic warfare. Second hand books under 10 euro/pound on other topics, maybe. I will shed some 5% of my books. Although I have no idea of how many I actually have.

5. I will blog once a week.

6. Just to remind myself: I won’t start any new projects. All non-book projects are on hold.

engelstein wrote:

ThirstyMan wrote: Agreed. OCS is the bomb.

Never played a wargame even close to the extent of planning needed in OCS.

I'll have to check out OCS. I have Bloody 110th from The Gamers, which I think is part of their TCS series. And that had you actually plotting things out with a grease pencil (showing my age) to plan attacks. I should go back and break that out again.

I kind of like the idea of TCS but in actuality, I found the system a bit unwieldy with all those phase line orders etc etc.

OCS just makes you think bloody hard if you actually have enough supply to run the operation. If not get it shipped up to the front but garrison those supply dumps or the enemy will have a field day screwing up your plans by blowing your fuel dumps. I really like the system which is right at the operational level of war and not the tactical level like TCS.

Jur wrote: 3. I won’t buy new figures. I might buy some more vehicles for Chain of Command. And maybe some buildings. I will shed some 5% of my lead pile.

Wow, didn't expect a TFL ruleset played by one of FATies.

why not? There must be some cross breeding between mioniatures and board games. There always has been for me. I did a blog on Le Feu Sacre here a few years back.

Bull Nakano wrote: My goals last year went pretty well, I'm going to shift gears a little and hope to maintain my 2013 behaviour through 2014.

-Play through games I own and have not played. I don't have any numbers on this currently but if I get around to that I'll update. Essentially I own a bunch of games which, for various reasons, have gone unplayed. I'd like to dramatically reduce that number.

-Don't be curious with purchases. I know my tastes well, if I don't want a game, don't buy it. I did well with this in 2013 but made a few bad purchases late in the year. This method of game buying has literally never paid off for me.

-Sell, sell, sell.Trading is good when I'm trading for games I want, but often times I accept trades to get games I don't want out of my sight but acquire other games I'm not excited about. Sell games, focus on what I want. I'd like my previously owned games to outnumber my owned games by 2015.

-Wargame. This is something I've been exploring lately and I'd like to continue in deeper.

-Paint. Nothing particular, but I really want to get back into painting miniatures regularly.

Two months gone by, time for a progress report:

1) Playing unplayed games.
My "goal" is to knock out 5 each month. I think this is a reasonable number to expect my playgroups to sit through as well as realistic. Even so, January fell short with only 2 unplayed games off the list, Hoity Toity (rating 3/5), and the then just acquired Res Publica (rating 4/5).

February showed much improvement here, plowing through Court of the Medici (4/5), China (4/5), Hollywood Blockbuster (3/5), Jambo (4/5), and Outpost (4/5).

No real stinkers in those months, though Hoity Toity is now on my trade list, and if Blockbuster isn't more interesting with fewer players (I played with 5 which I feel is too many) it'll be keeping it company.

I already hit my goal of 5 for March! More on that next update.

2) Better purchases.
Well, for the year this far I haven't had steady work, which has undoubtedly helped me stick with this, but to date I've only purchased 2 games (Res Publica and Famiglia) and backed 1 kickstarter (This Town). A total of just around $20 after shipping. Not too bad. There are still games I really want but I'm not feeling the need to buy them, I've been trying to trade for them since there seem to be only a couple dozen games I'm interested in picking up total. I'm considering backing the Kickstarter for Town Center, as the game seems really interesting and probably won't hit US distribution.

3) Sell games.
I've sold a few big ticket games (BatHoth, LotR Risk Trilogy, DungeonQuest 3rd edition), haven't felt motivated to move the less valuable stuff for a couple bucks. I've been trying to push it through math trades for games I want with some success.

4) Wargame.
Sadly, my wargaming to date this year is limited to a single session of Combat Commander Europe. I really want to play that game (and others) much more, but my wargaming partner seems to be fairly busy recently.

5) Paint.
The biggest misstep so far. I've painted practically nothing. I hope Spring changes how I feel about that. Doing things in the Winter is particularly difficult for me, so we'll see.

That's all, see you in a month or two!

Bull Nakano wrote:
1) Playing unplayed games.
My "goal" is to knock out 5 each month. I think this is a reasonable number to expect my playgroups to sit through as well as realistic. Even so, January fell short with only 2 unplayed games off the list, Hoity Toity (rating 3/5), and the then just acquired Res Publica (rating 4/5).

I can't believe that you have enough unplayed games to play 5 a month. Wow.

3) Sell games.
I've sold a few big ticket games (BatHoth, LotR Risk Trilogy, DungeonQuest 3rd edition), haven't felt motivated to move the less valuable stuff for a couple bucks. I've been trying to
push it through math trades for games I want with some success.

You might want to put a list together. I'd be surprised if someone here wouldn't overpay a few bucks for a pile so you only have to ship a few times. Bundling, baby!

4) Wargame.
Sadly, my wargaming to date this year is limited to a single session of Combat Commander Europe. I really want to play that game (and others) much more, but my wargaming partner seems to be fairly busy recently.

The Wreck Age rules are free and on torrents. Good bathroom reading, and it's an incredibly fun game.

5) Paint.
The biggest misstep so far. I've painted practically nothing. I hope Spring changes how I feel about that. Doing things in the Winter is particularly difficult for me, so we'll see.

For everyone. You can't spray paint in the winter!

That's all, see you in a month or two![/quote]

I'll bite. Why not, Superfly? I've never heard that about spray paint.

I got half of mine. I didn't sell any games, but I did play Android twice. My monthly group likes it so I'll probably play it 1-2 a year now.